Veldora's egg? Rimuru found it hard to imagine the scene of this giant dragon with a handsome man's voice brooding over an egg. At this moment, Veldora urged with a shout, "Hurry, I can feel that thief is right in this area. Rimuru, show your power on my behalf and punish that ignorant thief!"
Hmm?
Rimuru stopped abruptly. Something wasn't right. Come to think of it, he still didn't know the situation of that thief. Was it someone he could talk to? If negotiations broke down, would his own combat power be a match for the opponent? Was it really okay to blindly barge into someone else's territory without knowing any of this important information?
"What's wrong, Rimuru?"
Veldora felt Rimuru stop and asked with concern. Hearing his words, Rimuru started moving forward again and replied calmly, "It's nothing, let's keep going."
He covered his face in his mind. Since it was a friend's request, there was no way to refuse; after all, he was the type who was bad at saying no to friends.
The round, water-blue Slime hopped and bounced all the way to a place with complex terrain. Many spider webs could be seen around. According to the information given by Veldora, the thief was a spider monster, so this was likely the right place. However, now that he was here, he still felt a bit uncertain.
Although he had "Predated" many monsters along the way and gained many skills and forms, the opponent was a monster that even Veldora had suffered a loss to; it might be very strong. If he couldn't win, it would be a bit awkward, since he had promised to help Veldora find the stolen egg—no, wait, if the goal is just to get the egg back, there's no need to fight, right? Maybe he could think of another way.
Veldora had been observing Rimuru and didn't quite understand Rimuru's actions. In his view, Rimuru had already obtained considerable power after being named by him, and those two unique skills of Rimuru's were not weak either. Although Rimuru wasn't as strong as himself yet, he already possessed the strength to run rampant in this place. Why be so cautious about a mere spider? He really couldn't understand Rimuru's thoughts.
Rimuru had just walked a short distance when he suddenly stopped and looked at the spider web he had stepped on. He felt a bit uneasy. That thief wouldn't be able to discover him through these spider webs, would it? Although he wanted to comfort himself and say it probably wouldn't, that was just self-deception. Since the opponent was a spider, it would likely find out. However, there were spider webs everywhere here; he couldn't possibly avoid them. In that case—
"Great Sage, can I predate the webs here?" Rimuru asked his other skill. The unique skill he possessed, Great Sage, had its own independent consciousness and had helped him a lot.
«Answer. Yes.»
"Do you want to use the unique skill
Predator? — YES/NO."
"YES."
Rimuru's body suddenly expanded, then wrapped and devoured, swallowing all the surrounding spider webs into his Stomach. After finishing this, he turned back into that seemingly harmless, round Slime that looked like a water ball.
"Hmm, this way I can continue to move forward in a relaxed manner." Rimuru continued to hop further inside. Since things like spider webs could sense his position, he would just eat them all.
Although this wouldn't inevitably prevent him from being discovered, it could at least ensure the opponent couldn't accurately grasp his position, so he wouldn't be at too much of a disadvantage... At the deepest part of this passage, filled with spider webs like a "home," a "small spider" nearly two meters long was lying in front of an egg about the same size as itself. The egg was pure white, with a halo pattern printed in the middle. Some magic circuits wove golden lines across the surface of the shell, looking incredibly divine.
Shiro felt that this egg was about to hatch. She could even feel Tsukasa's familiar aura waking up within it. Just as she was waiting with great expectation for the moment Tsukasa woke up, an intruder arrived outside. Not only did it destroy all her arrangements, but it also radiated a massive amount of magicules without the slightest concealment!
This was a provocation!
However, the opponent's magicule reaction was on a similar scale to that of the giant dragon underground, so Shiro didn't plan to go out and fight. Her first thought was whether to take Tsukasa and escape. But at that moment, a tiny crack appeared at the top of the egg with a "crack" sound. An incredibly massive magicule reaction spread outward through that crack. It was a holy-attribute magic that Shiro had never seen before. Just from the leakage of the aura, the surrounding environment was purified, and the plants growing nearby were all sublimated.
It's hatching?
At a time like this?
Although it was a bit unexpected, it wasn't surprising, because the egg had looked like it could hatch at any moment lately. Shiro just hadn't expected the timing to be so coincidental. Perhaps it was because Tsukasa also felt the massive magicules being emitted by the opponent and instinctively sensed danger, choosing to hatch at this time.
Based on her understanding of Tsukasa.
This situation was very likely.
Shiro climbed up the spider web and hid in the shadows of the stone wall. Since Tsukasa had already begun to hatch and she wasn't sure if the egg could be moved, she chose to intercept the fellow who was intruding here. Although the level and attributes should favor the opponent, she wasn't without a chance of winning. The Death Scythe she had evolved into was more powerful than her past forms. Perhaps it was because she had been instinctively protected by Tsukasa during the transmigration, causing her to be stained with a bit of divinity, and then she had absorbed part of the magicules poured in by the Storm Dragon.
Back then, Tsukasa's body had been obliterated, leaving only a bit of her origin, and Shiro had absorbed a portion of that divinity at such close range, gaining a significant boost.
Shiro was now like a hunter hidden in the shadows, not leaking a single bit of her aura. Combined with Tsukasa's magicule reaction, her presence was nearly non-existent, allowing her to deliver a fatal blow at any moment.
Just when Shiro thought the one arriving would be an incredibly ferocious monster, a water-blue Slime came hopping into the area. When it saw the glowing egg, it even stayed in place for a while, leaving Shiro dumbfounded for a moment.
That massive magicule reaction actually came from this "weak-looking" fellow. Moreover, that creature was a Slime, wasn't it? Although it was hard to see such a cute Slime, exactly like those in games, in the other world she came from, she definitely wouldn't mistake it. This was the lowest-tier monster in some games that couldn't even withstand a single attack from a novice player.
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